Nasuni Filer Hardware Deployment
Getting Started Guide for NF-200
Welcome!
Welcome to the Nasuni family of customers. The Nasuni Filer hardware appliance is your connection to Nasuni’s
services, giving you a single point of control to manage your storage. Our Service enables you to absorb data
growth, reduce headaches due to backups, and experience the security of offsite replication. The Nasuni Filer
hardware appliance is easy to install, taking no more than 15 minutes.
Enjoy powerful data storage and global multi-site access to files — simplified!
Summary
You can set up your Nasuni Filer without console access. At the end of the setup process, the LCD panel on the
Nasuni Filer hardware appliance displays the initial IP address of the Nasuni Filer Web-based user interface. This IP
address is critical for administering your Nasuni Filer. After you install the hardware appliance, you configure and
administer the Nasuni Filer using the Web user interface.
Network Configuration
The Nasuni Filer has one required and two optional ports that need to be open and available on your network:
•
443 HTTPS (required) — This port is used when communicating with the Nasuni Service.
•
NTP (optional) — You can configure the Nasuni Filer to use your local NTP time server. Depending on your
network environment, you might need to open port 123 on your network to use the default NTP servers.
•
25 SMTP (optional) — You can configure the Nasuni Filer to use your local SMTP server. Depending on your
network environment, you might need to open port 25 on your network. This step is necessary for the Nasuni
Filer to send alerts via SMTP if you configure the alerts option.
Installation Procedure
To set up the Nasuni Filer hardware appliance:
1.
Install the mounting rails in the rack where you want to mount the Nasuni Filer hardware appliance, then mount
the hardware appliance on the rails. Refer to the hardware mounting documentation (included) for more details.
2.
Attach the power and network cables. If there is one network cable, plug it into the “Gb1” port; if there are two
network cables, plug one into the “Gb1” port and the other one into the “Gb2” port. Provide each power supply
with power from separate sources for best power redundancy.
3.
Connect the Nasuni Filer hardware appliance to your network.
4.
Power on the Nasuni Filer hardware appliance. Wait 5 minutes for the system to start up.
5.
Determine or set the IP address of the Nasuni Filer in one of the following ways:
•
If DHCP is available on the network, make note of the IP address that appears on the LCD panel.
•
Otherwise, connect a monitor and keyboard. Press
Enter
. Use username
service
and password
service
. Enter
editnetwork
. Enter
setall static
. Follow the prompts to enter data. Enter
save
.
6.
Provide the IP address noted to the Nasuni Filer administrator to complete the software installation using a Web
browser. Software installation documentation is at:
http://www.nasuni.com/support/documentation
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